# PhishDestroy domain threat record: ethiccert.com

Content language: English
Canonical HTML report: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/ethiccert.com/
Machine-readable companion: https://phishdestroy.io/domain/ethiccert.com/llm.txt

## Summary

PhishDestroy stores a threat-intelligence record for this domain.
This document reports the latest stored fields; it is not a real-time guarantee of availability or safety.

## Stored observations

- Listed by PhishDestroy: yes
- Availability at last stored check: observed active
- First observed by PhishDestroy: 2026-10-10 22:57:42 UTC
- Last availability or vendor check: 2026-10-22 10:28:13 UTC
- Stored record updated: 2026-10-22 16:07:29 UTC
- VirusTotal detections in the stored snapshot: 6/92
- Independent public blocklist matches in the stored snapshot: 0
- Google Safe Browsing stored result: no stored flag

## Stored classification

- Targeted brand: google

## Stored infrastructure

- Observed IP address: 5.2.85.131
- Registrar in stored WHOIS data: Nics Telekomunikasyon A.S.
- Registrar country in stored WHOIS data: TR
- Last stored HTTP status: 200
- Registration date (registry RDAP, ethiccert.com): 2018-05-21 05:59:36 UTC

## Evidence links

- URLScan report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a12807-7a7a-72cf-974f-b6663f722a3f/
- VirusTotal domain view: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/ethiccert.com
- Certificate Transparency search: https://crt.sh/?q=%25.ethiccert.com
- Web Archive lookup: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://ethiccert.com/

## Corrections

- Appeal or correct this record: https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/
- Methodology and help: https://phishdestroy.io/faq

## Stored PhishDestroy analysis

Overview
ethiccert.com presents itself as "Ethic Cert – Sertifika Belgelendirme", a Turkish-language certification and documentation service. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page. Its likely audience is companies and staff in Turkey who are looking for audit or certification services. We first flagged it on 2026-10-11, and it was still online and serving content when checked on 2026-10-19.

How the scam works
Impersonation pages like this copy the name and look of a legitimate service so that visitors trust them with things they would only give the real provider. For a certification brand, that usually means company details, contact information, scanned documents or account logins, and sometimes an upfront fee for an assessment or certificate that never arrives. The Turkish page title presents the site as a certification office, not a crypto or wallet brand, and the PhishDestroy classification rests on impersonation, not on any wallet-draining code.

Evidence
VirusTotal returned 6 malicious verdicts out of 92 engines on 2026-10-12, from ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet and Gridinsoft. That is a minority of engines, but it includes several established web-filtering vendors, so many corporate filters may already block the domain. The domain also appears in 34 AlienVault OTX threat-intelligence pulses, which points to sustained attention from other researchers. Among blocklists, it is currently listed only by PhishDestroy.

Infrastructure
The domain is not a fresh throwaway. It was registered on 2018-05-21 through the Turkish registrar Nics Telekomunikasyon A.S., more than eight years before we detected it. A long-lived domain carries more trust with filters and visitors than a newly registered one. The site is hosted in Turkey on the Alastyr Telekomunikasyon A.S. network, which matches the Turkish-language branding and suggests a locally targeted operation.

What to do
If you sent money for a certificate or assessment through this site, contact your bank or payment provider right away to dispute the charge. Then confirm the supplier through an official accreditation registry, not through details shown on the page. If you entered a password, change it everywhere you reuse it and turn on two-factor authentication. Warn colleagues who may have received the same contact, and treat any follow-up emails or invoices referencing Ethic Cert with suspicion. Security teams should block the domain at the proxy and DNS layers, search mail and web logs for prior visits, and report the site to the registrar and hosting provider.

Useful links
urlscan.io scan and screenshot: https://urlscan.io/result/01a12807-7a7a-72cf-974f-b6663f722a3f/
VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/domain/ethiccert.com
Google Safe Browsing status: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?url=ethiccert.com
Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260415220634/https://ethiccert.com/
Report phishing to Google: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
Site owner? Request a review: https://phishdestroy.io/appeals/
Analysis generated: 2026-10-19 09:27:16 UTC

## Stored page captures

- Primary capture: https://urlscan.io/screenshots/01a12807-7a7a-72cf-974f-b6663f722a3f.png
  Captured: 2026-10-10 22:57:42 UTC
- URLScan capture 1: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/01a12807-7a7a-72cf-974f-b6663f722a3f.png
  Captured: 2026-10-10 22:57:42 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a12807-7a7a-72cf-974f-b6663f722a3f/
- URLScan capture 2: https://urlscan.io/screenshots/01a0e195-22eb-728d-b977-16eb447ca16e.png
  Captured: 2026-10-10 22:45:16 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a12807-7a7a-72cf-974f-b6663f722a3f/
- Cloudflare Radar: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/cf/64ac8dc9-6414-4f17-bca3-a484de5368d0.png
  Captured: 2026-10-12 11:31:10 UTC
  Source report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/64ac8dc9-6414-4f17-bca3-a484de5368d0
  SHA-256: d8ebb8611f17181e3f1593b099fc9f282b8469910441ad5d5622b2eed7f3be5f
- URLQuery: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/uq/ec8126e1-79b0-4b6f-b0b7-6f81798a70ec.png
  Source report: https://urlquery.net/report/ec8126e1-79b0-4b6f-b0b7-6f81798a70ec
  SHA-256: 12839a08b31b17d69ab563222ae079e3b7024f5e49b751aa66d2d2542890cf4a
- URLScan · 2026-09-27: https://screenshots.phishdestroy.io/us/01a0e195-22eb-728d-b977-16eb447ca16e.png
  Captured: 2026-09-27 06:37:29 UTC
  Source report: https://urlscan.io/result/01a0e195-22eb-728d-b977-16eb447ca16e/
  SHA-256: 3e2da9078867977ab6a0c2afae96f07cef8f28bd8638a8fa0a69040fd1e0c76e

## Collected source observations

Provider observations retain their own timestamps. Capture links do not establish image content. Shared infrastructure does not identify an operator.
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        "scanned_at": "2026-10-10T22:55:48Z",
        "final_url": "https://ethiccert.com/",
        "status": 200,
        "redirected": "https-only",
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        },
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            "updated": "2026-07-31T18:15:56Z",
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            }
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    }
}
```